This is the new famous Spanish supplanted with AI to cheat on social networks

A video by Jordi Cruz encouraging you to click an Instagram link to take a series of tupperware, another of Thalia promising to win thousands of pesos in days … both are false, created with artificial intelligence, and have already made the alarms jump to prevent you from falling into the trap.

It is the new fashion of cybercriminals: Use known faces to give credibility to your scams. In the case of the Spanish chef, the video is circulating through networks and he himself has been in charge of publishing a re -warning that it is a trick to steal all the money.

On the other hand, the Mexican singer was cloned on a Facebook page called “Silvia Flores”, where they asked for 900 Mexican pesos, about 45 euros, initial investment.

The results are always the same: money disappears and the scams remain unanswered. After the complaints, the videos are deleted, but the accounts resort with new names. As in the case of Brad Pitt, whose Deepfake He was used to cheat 830,000 euros to a woman during his divorce with Angelina Jolie. Or Taylor Swift, whose cloned voice has appeared in alleged false raffles.

This is how the scam works (and why we fall so much)

The first step always usually resorts to emotional hook. Scammers choose famous with faithful audiences such as chefs, singers, influencers … and clon them in everyday situations.

In the false video of Thalia, for example, the artist appears “personally recommended” Silvia Flores, an alleged investment guru, or in the video of Jordi Cruz, the truth is that he gives the hit and it really seems that you are losing a great opportunity.

The second step is the urgency. “Only 100 places available”, “Limited time offer.” The message always appeals to the fear of getting lost.

The third step is the false tests. In the Telegram group linked to the scam of Thalia, they shared captures of invented profits. But when the victims asked to withdraw their money, the alleged managers blocked chats or asked for more funds to “unlock the account.”

According to the National Police, These networks have pyramidal structures and the first scammed sometimes become accomplices to recover part of their investment.

The new era of telephone scams also makes use of AI

Voice cloning with artificial intelligence is another way to use AI to cheat. This route has also become the perfect breeding ground for criminals.

Because? Well it is simple. Imagine receiving a call from a friend or even a relative asking for confidential information or telling you to need a bank transfer. Everything seems real, especially since you recognize your voice. But what if they are not them?

While it is true that for this to be carried out, scammers need to have real audio samples of these people, The speed with which this technology is evolving, if you also take into account the easy access to these tools, worries.

In the end, a fragment of someone’s voice of a conversation is enough for a criminal to use it to generate very realistic conversations that, ultimately, are false. If someone knows your relationship with another person and records it to use it against you, you are lost almost 100% probability.

As for how this big problem could be stirred that will only go to more, There are several ways to end it.

It is true, and taking into account that being already tools that transform the voices already live, it is very complex to check whether it is your relative or not, unless you begin to distrust everyone and dedicate yourself to asking you key questions that only the real person knows.

However, there are still things to do. For example, technology companies, such as Google, Meta or Microsoft, could develop Deepfakes detection algorithms to protect their own products and services.

At the moment, it seems that the “solution” falls directly to you. Taking into account that you will only have your own ears to identify whether or not it is a false call, there are certain aspects that you can take into account:

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Scam, Software, Instagram